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Windows not recognizing bootcamp space

Hi everyone, I couldn't find the answer I needed searching the forums so I thought maybe you guys could help me out.

I have a friend with a 2011 MacBook Pro and I helped him set up Windows 7 with bootcamp. I made the bootcamp partition 30GB (his drive is just a 128gb SSD) but he quickly realized that was too small. I then made used the Windows tools to create a system image on a portable hard drive, erased the bootcamp partition, made a new bootcamp partition of 60GB, reinstalled Windows, and then restored from the system image. When I look at the partitions from the Mac side it shows 60GB but from Windows it shows 27GB like I haven't changed anything. I assume this is because the system image restored it to exactly like it was? How can I get Windows to see the extra space? Or should I have went about it entirely differently. I'm not really used to dealing with Windows stuff anymore so if anyone has some help that would be great.

Posted on Mar 4, 2015 10:44 PM

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Loner T

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Mar 5, 2015 9:19 PM in response to Cgood12

Can you post the output of diskutil list?

Cgood12 Author

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Mar 5, 2015 9:25 PM in response to Loner T

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_CoreStorage 60.5 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

4: Microsoft Basic Data 60.0 GB disk0s4

/dev/disk1

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD *60.1 GB disk1

Logical Volume on disk0s2

BE347BD4-4DA6-462F-B21E-06012494E40C

Unencrypted

Cgood12 Author

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Mar 6, 2015 9:22 AM in response to Cgood12

Ok I downloaded GParted Live and burned it to CD and ran it and it shows the full 56GB formatted amount so I'm still kinda stumped. Btw thanks so much for your effort in helping me, its really great.

Cgood12 Author

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Mar 6, 2015 9:25 AM in response to Cgood12

Would there be a better way of backing up Windows that I could use and just redo the Bootcamp partition again? Is that a better option?

Loner T

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Mar 6, 2015 9:30 AM in response to Cgood12

Windows is already restored. There is no need to reinstall/restore again. Can you take a look at using gparted to resize your windows vista partition? Even though this is for Vista, it also works for other Windows versions.

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Mar 6, 2015 10:06 AM in response to Loner T

In GParted it doesn't show any unallocated space. There's about 60GB for OS X and about 60GB in NTFS but in the Windows 7 partition tool it shows 85GB for OS X and 27GB for Windows. I'm thinking I should just suggest he get Parallels haha

Cgood12 Author

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Mar 6, 2015 10:08 AM in response to Cgood12

Ok should I try running the Windows install disk and try to repair the drive or something?

Loner T

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Mar 6, 2015 10:15 AM in response to Cgood12

Can you look at the Disk Management snap-in in Windows and see what it shows? This is what it should look like.

Cgood12 Author

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Mar 6, 2015 10:23 AM in response to Loner T

It still shows the 85GB for Mac 27GB for Windows and a couple small partitions

Loner T

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Mar 6, 2015 10:33 AM in response to Cgood12

Are you able to a screen shot similar to what I have posted?

Cgood12 Author

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Mar 6, 2015 10:46 AM in response to Loner T

I don't know how to take a screenshot in Windows so I just took a picture

Loner T

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Mar 6, 2015 11:36 AM in response to Cgood12

You can take snapshots of your screen using http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/features/snipping-tool. There other third-party tools as well.

The MBR and GPT are not in sync. The OSX partition is smaller (60G rather than 85G, a difference of 25G) and the 8GB difference between 113G and 121G should also get added to giving you 27 + 25 + 8 = 60G for Windows.

If the GPT is synced with the MBR, you may have to run Windows Startup Repair.

Please see the following links

https://neosmart.net/wiki/0xc000000e/

https://neosmart.net/wiki/bootrec/

https://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392?wa=wsignin1.0

Cgood12 Author

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Mar 6, 2015 12:26 PM in response to Loner T

Ok thank you very much. I'll give it a go and see what happens.

Windows not recognizing bootcamp space